- Judge scraps SNAP junk food rules, dealing a blow to MAHA
Source: Politico
“A federal judge on Monday scrapped a set of state pilot programs intended to restrict the use of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program money to purchase unhealthy foods. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson, an Obama appointee, wrote in her decision that Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, who oversees the SNAP program, misapplied federal law in approving requests from states to allow them to impose limits on what participants can buy with funds from the nation’s largest food aid program. Her ruling applies to Colorado, Iowa, Nebraska, Tennessee and West Virginia. ‘With her solicitation and approval of the pilot projects in this case, the Secretary purports to waive not just a mere administrative or technical obstacle, but the very definition of ‘food’ as it was laid down by Congress,’ Berman wrote.” (06/22/26)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/22/judge-snap-junk-food-rules-maha-00970700
- France: About 20 drown trying to escape heatwave sweeping much of Europe
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“French authorities say about 20 people have drowned over the weekend while swimming in unsupervised areas to seek relief from a heatwave gripping France and other parts of Europe. … Separately, local authorities said the heatwave was the most likely reason for the deaths of two children aged two and four who were found unconscious in a car outside their home in Carpentras in southeastern France. Three more people aged 80 to 95 died in the Bordeaux region from heat-related health issues, local official Sophie Brocas told France TV.” (06/23/26)
- Judge rules DOJ subpoenas of Walz, others are unconstitutional
Source: United Press International
“A federal judge on Monday threw out multiple Justice Department subpoenas issued to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and other officials, saying they are unconstitutional and part of attempts to harass President Donald Trump’s political opponents. The subpoenas sought to force Walz and others to turn over records and information as part of a federal investigation into whether Democratic officials obstructed the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown through public resistance. … District Judge Patrick Schiltz said the subpoenas were ‘part of an unconstitutional effort to coerce Minnesota officials into assisting the federal government with enforcing civil immigration laws and to harass and retaliate against them for failing to do so,’ CNN reported.” (06/22/26)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2026/06/22/judge-throws-out-DOJ-subpoenas/1341782167543/
- Ukraine: Russian strikes injure six as fuel crisis deepens into Siberia
Source: AOL
“Six people were wounded in Russian air strikes on Ukraine overnight on Tuesday, local authorities said, while Russia’s ongoing fuel crisis deepened into parts of Siberia. The strikes came in the wake of a Ukrainian attack on a plant producing electronics for missiles in Russia’s border Voronezh region on Monday that killed five people and injured dozens, according to the local governor. … Ukrainian attacks on maritime logistics and supply roads have sparked a fuel crisis in Russia and areas of Ukraine it controls. … The Omsk region, about 2,500 kilometres southeast of Moscow, is limiting fuel sales and the nearby Novosibirsk region is preparing to do the same, local governors said on Telegram. … From Tuesday, Lukoil, Russia’s second biggest oil producer, was limiting gasoline and diesel sales in Voronezh region, the regional government said on Telegram.” (06/23/26)
https://www.aol.com/articles/ukraines-kyiv-issues-air-raid-223451000.html
- Iranian regime says no new commitments on nuclear sites after Vance says inspectors to be invited back
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“Iran has denied a claim by Vice-President JD Vance that it will allow nuclear inspectors back into the country, after the first round of talks between Washington and Tehran to reach a final deal to end the war. Following negotiations in Switzerland, Vance said discussions with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) could be happening ‘as soon as today.’ But Iran’s foreign ministry told state media that Tehran had made ‘no new commitments’ on nuclear inspections. It came as the US temporarily waived sanctions, allowing Iran to sell oil in US dollars for the first time in decades.” (06/23/26)
- Judge blocks Trump regime’s overhauled heimatschutz database of Americans’ personal information
Source: CBS News
“A federal judge on Monday ruled the Trump administration acted unlawfully when it created a centralized database that contains Americans’ private information, which she said has since been used by some states to incorrectly remove U.S. citizens from their voter rolls. U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan in Washington, D.C., sided with a voting rights group and nonprofit that works to protect privacy in finding that the administration violated three different laws with its new system that includes Americans’ citizenship data. … The judge set aside the administration’s overhaul of a database maintained by the Department of Homeland Security to verify citizenship and immigration status, called the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or SAVE, system.” (06/22/26)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-trump-database-save-system-voter-rolls/
- Alan Greenspan, 1926-2026
Source: The Hill
“Alan Greenspan, who served five terms as chair of the Federal Reserve, died on Monday at the age of 100. Greenspan’s wife, longtime NBC News journalist Andrea Mitchell, said in a statement to the network that her husband died from complications of Parkinson’s disease. … Greenspan served as the 13th chair of the central bank from 1987 to 2006, a tenure spanning four presidents — Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.” (06/22/26)
https://thehill.com/business/5933797-alan-greenspan-federal-reserve
- US Senate passes housing bill
Source: NBC News
“The Senate voted overwhelmingly Monday to pass a sweeping housing affordability [sic] bill aimed at lowering costs, putting Congress on the brink of a rare bipartisan victory in President Donald Trump’s second term. … The legislation, which would make it easier to build homes and slap limits on Wall Street investors’ buying up houses, now goes to the House, which hopes to vote on it in the next few days. Then, it would go to Trump’s desk to be signed into law. … The legislation would approve a series of funding and grant programs for constructing new homes. It would slash red tape and empower local governments to expedite reviews to build more housing. And a key section titled ‘Homes Are For People, Not Corporations’ would restrict any ‘large institutional investor’ from buying single-family homes.” (06/22/26)
- US House unveils “bipartisan” Internet censorship scheme
Source: The Hill
“House lawmakers announced a bipartisan deal on a package for protecting [sic] kids [sic] online on Monday, months after negotiations on digital and social media regulation fell apart between the two parties. … The KIDS (Kids Internet and Digital Safety) Act includes portions from the landmark Kids Online Safety Act, dubbed KOSA, which aims to hold social media companies accountable for the alleged harms their platforms cause for minors and young kids.” [editor’s note: Censors always screech that their proposed restrictions are “for the chilllllllllllldren,” but we know better, don’t we? – TLK] (06/22/26)
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5934266-bipartisan-deal-kids-online-protection
- Obesity, Wireheads, and the case for and Against Paternalism
Source: David Friedman’s Substack
by David Friedman“Suppose we come up with really good pleasure drugs, drugs that give us lots of pleasure without negative side effects such as hangovers or cirhosis of the liver. If we accept the economist’s model of the rational actor, their invention is clearly a good thing. It expands our choice set, provides us one more and possibly better way of getting what we want. To people skeptical of the rational model, that conclusion is less clear. To see the problem, consider an extreme version. Larry Niven, in some of his stories, describes wireheads, people who have had a wire inserted into the pleasure center of their brain and stimulate it with a mild electric current. The intense pleasure that results dominates all other concern, making it possible for a wirehead to die of hunger and thirst because getting food or drink is simply more trouble than it is worth.” (06/22/26)
https://daviddfriedman.substack.com/p/obesity-wireheads-and-the-case-for
- The Rise of “Geomaxxing”
Source: Independent Institute
by Scott Beyer“America was founded on the idea that individuals should be free to pursue their own lives, fortunes, and happiness without excess government interference. The nation’s story has long been one of people fleeing constraints and moving towards opportunity. As the U.S. celebrates its 250th anniversary, it’s natural to ask whether the nation still embodies this. My answer is mostly yes. The U.S. remains one of the freest and most prosperous societies in human history, and continues to attract millions of immigrants. But do Americans themselves still intuitively feel this way about their country? Increasingly, the answer appears to be no. That is reflected in the rise of ‘geomaxxing,’ a buzzy internet term that describes a serious trend. More Americans are looking beyond their own borders for better quality of life, lower costs, and greater freedom.” (06/22/26)
https://www.independent.org/article/2026/06/22/the-rise-of-geomaxxing/
- Time for Term Limits
Source: Checks & Balances
by Donald Ayer“As public trust in the Supreme Court wavers, term limits provide a possible solution.” (06/22/26)
- The Art of the Tax Deal
Source: Hawaii Reporter
by Tom Yamachika“One of the basic freedoms we have in this country, enshrined in our Constitution, is the freedom to contract. Two or more parties with differing interests can agree to just about anything, as long as it isn’t illegal, and our country’s court system will enforce that agreement. The rules work a little differently when the government is part of the agreement. The government has the ability to contract as well, but the ability is defined and limited by law. It should be. We, the people, have an interest in the deals that our government is making. Especially if tax money, or government resources paid for by tax money, is part of the deal.” (06/22/26)
- Enterprising the Final Frontier
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Katrina Gulliver“In his new book, New Space Capitalism: The Entrepreneurial Path to the Stars, Rainer Zitelmann presents the idea that private enterprise is the best way for space exploration to go forward, pointing out the ways in which public funding, since the days of the Moon landing, has been too uneven (and insufficient) to make the advances possible. When reaching space initially was a political contest, the spirit was there, but since the end of the Cold War, it has been less of a priority. … But today, billionaires have become more involved, and the prospect of space tourism has also put more money into the enterprise.” (06/22/26)
- The Demented Origin of the War on Drugs and War on Terrorism Nexus
Source: JimBovard.com
by James Bovard“If the U.S. government is entitled to summarily kill suspected drug traffickers abroad, there is no reason why the same prerogative would not eventually be invoked on the home front. If politicians truly want to protect Americans, why not authorize the U.S. military, state police, and county government dog catchers to summarily attack any boat suspected of transporting drugs on the nation’s lakes, rivers, or overgrown puddles? Actually, such warped logic has already been taken to absurd ends. The core follies of the Trump-Hegseth war of extermination on drug suspects were established almost a quarter-century ago. American illicit drug users miraculously became collectively guilty for every terrorist attack in the world.” (06/22/26)
- The United States of Underwriters
Source: Underthrow
by Max Borders“It started in a London coffee house in the 1680s. Merchants and ship captains crowded the tables, and somewhere between the gossip and the gambling, they began betting on the things everyone else was afraid of. Hurricanes. Pirates. Ships lost at sea. Three hundred years later, the same place would ensure Bruce Springsteen’s voice and the legs of a Hollywood actress. It’s called Lloyd’s, and most people think it’s an insurance company. But it’s something stranger and far more interesting. Lloyd’s is a risk marketplace. And buried in how Lloyd’s works is a schematic for reinventing government itself.” (06/22/26)
https://underthrow.substack.com/p/the-united-states-of-underwriters
- Trump’s Attempt to End the Iran War Infuriates the Uniparty
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
by Ron Paul“President Trump started a war on Iran against all sober guidance and in violation of the US Constitution’s requirement that only Congress can declare war. There must be a reckoning for our elected leaders who violate their oath of office, the Constitution, and simple common sense. However, what is more telling is the reaction when President Trump finally took the correct move and attempted to end the war. The neocons who had hailed him as a great leader – Levin, Bolton, Pompeo, etc. – suddenly turned against him when he turned against further escalation of the war. Even Trump’s top funder, Miriam Adelson, attacked Trump in her newspaper Israel Hayom.” (06/22/26)
- Borrowed Time: The “Extend and Pretend” Economy Must End
Source: The Daily Economy
by Laura Williams“Trillions in hidden distress and deferred losses are emerging as borrowers run out of time and options. America’s debt reckoning has begun.” (06/22/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/borrowed-time-the-extend-and-pretend-economy-must-end/
- Americans Discovered How to End Poverty
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger“During my favorite period in history — around 1870 to 1910 — the standard of living of the American people skyrocketed. Suddenly, poor people were going from rags to riches in one, two, or three generations. In fact, some poor people were becoming multimillionaires. Real wages were soaring — and not because of inflation because there was no inflation. Multitudes of European immigrants were flooding into America to get in on the action. New inventions were coming into existence every day. The world had never seen anything like it. And everyone in the world marveled at what was happening. But why? Why the United States and not some long-established foreign country? The answer lies in what happened about a century before — in 1776, when two revolutionary concepts were introduced to the world — and then in 1788, when the U.S. Constitution was ratified.” (06/22/26)
https://www.fff.org/2026/06/22/americans-discovered-how-to-end-poverty/
- The Conversion of JD Vance
Source: Free Press
by Robert P George“What makes J.D. Vance tick? Most Americans, whether or not they’ve read J.D. Vance’s 2016 memoir Hillbilly Elegy, have some idea of his remarkable journey from poverty in Middletown, Ohio, to the vice presidency of the United States. In some ways it’s the Horatio Alger tale to beat all Horatio Alger tales. A gambler who knew James David Hamel (as he was then known) as a child would have given million to one odds against his attending Yale Law School, making a ton of money in tech investing, and then becoming a United States senator and vice president of the United States. But that’s exactly what he went on to do …. Another thing he managed to do before age 41: publish two memoirs. His second, released last week, is called Communion, and traces Vance’s decision, as an adult, to be received into the Catholic Church.” (06/21/26)
- Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 06/22/26
Source: Antiwar.com
“US Issues Waivers for Iranian Oil Sales, US and Iran Establish Lebanon Deconfliction Cell, and More.” (06/22/26)
- Sal and Mark, episode 7
Source: Free Talk Live
“Mark is in Costa Rica, so Sal Mayweather and Free Talk Live veteran Wayne Quinn hold it down for a packed episode covering everything from the Zcash exploit to the future of financial privacy.” (06/22/26)
- Ron Paul Liberty Report, 06/22/26
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
“US To Buy Iranian Oil – First Time In Decades!” (06/22/26)
- Reason Roundtable, 06/22/26
Source: Reason
“Why U.K. Socialism Could Soon Be America’s Problem.” (06/22/26)
https://reason.com/podcast/2026/06/22/why-u-k-socialism-could-soon-be-americas-problem/